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![The Fox]. Proof before letters [and:] [The Hound]. Proof before letters [and:] The Hound....](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/261113_2.jpg?v=1534806646)
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1931]; 1933. Published in an edition of 250 prints. Kirmse’s superb heads of... Read More about The Fox]. Proof before letters [and:] [The Hound]. Proof before letters [and:] The Hound....
Price: $10,000
London: Day & Son, n.d. Third edition. Read More about “Curry & Rice,” on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station”...
Price: $500
London: Day & Son, 1911. Fifth edition. Read More about “Curry & Rice,” on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station”...
Price: $450
1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon..... Read More about 2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School...
Price: $1,500
Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd Company, 1916. First edition. Account of big game hunting in the St. Elias Range, Yukon Territory."- Arctic Bibliography. Read More about Camp Fires in the Yukon
Price: $150
![Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title]. Fred Auger](/pictures/thumb/246510.jpg?v=1534805958)
[N.p., Vancouver? August 1961]. RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and “one Indian” (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the..... Read More about Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title
Price: $1,750
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More about An Angler's Anthology. Collected by
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More about An Angler's Anthology. Collected by
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1931]. First edition. Read More about An Angler’s Anthology. Collected by …
Price: $150
![Jagd-Cronik von Gerlos [Cover title.] Autograph Manuscript Hunting Chronicle, Gerlos im...](/pictures/thumb/303549.jpg?v=1534807386)
[Austria: 1864-1877]. Manuscript Chronicle of Hunting in the Tirol. Manuscript chronicle of hunting in the Jagdbezirk (district) of Gerlos in the Zillertal south west of Kitzebühl in the Austrian Tirol, including discussion of the boundaries and characteristics of the area, historical remarks and a review of the large and small..... Read More about Jagd-Cronik von Gerlos [Cover title.] Autograph Manuscript Hunting Chronicle, Gerlos im...
Price: $1,750
New York: Harrison Smith and Rober Haas, [1933]. Printed in France "Achevé d'imprimer le 17 Janvier 1933 par Columna et Mourlot Frères à Paris." "Published simultaneously in Paris by the Domino Press (whose logo is on the back cover) , in England by Faber and Faber, and in the U.S...... Read More about Powder. The Story of a Colt, A Duchess and the Circus
Price: $150
Columbia, N.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1947. First edition. "The scene of all stories in My Health Is Better In November is the South; most of the incidents recorded took place in South Carolina. They constitute a delightful expression of one of the major aspects of life in the..... Read More about My Health Is Better In November. Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South
Price: $150
New York: Greenberg Publishers. A Gun Room Book, [1951]. First Trade Edition. Read More about Tales of Quails 'n Such
Price: $200
New York: Greenberg, [1951]. Schaldach, William J. First Edition. Number 1 of 299, signed "Best wishes Havilah Babcock" on ffep. COPY NUMBER ONE. Laid in is a Christmas card addressed to Ray (Rilings) from the sales manager John Bodett at Greenberg sending him copy Number One as he has the..... Read More about Tales of Quails 'n Such
Price: $750
[Buffalo, NY]: Printed for Private Distribution, 1921. Second edition. Inscribed. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 91-95. Privately printed, and re-issued in five editions through 1951. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, "For H. Wendell Endicott/ with the..... Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $1,750
[Buffalo]: Printed [by Matthews Northrup] for Private Distribution, [1920]. First edition. Presentation Copy of the Rare First. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and “A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon” at pp. 53-57. Privately printed, and re-issued in several editions through 1951. Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $3,000
N.p: [Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 14 of 250 copies, initialed by the author “L.L.B.”. Presentation Copy. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon", at pp. 147-150. Privately printed, first in 1921 and re-issued in five editions through..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture
Price: $1,000
[Buffalo, N.Y: Privately printed for the author], 1930. Third edition. No. 191 of 250 copies, initialed by the author. Inscribed. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 147-150 Privately printed, first in 1921 and re-issued in five..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture by Rod and Reel
Price: $1,000
[N.p: Privately printed], 1951. Fifth edition, no. 99 of 250 copies signed by the author, additionally inscribed by the author on the first plate. Inscribed. The fifth edition of Babcock’s classic work (first published in 1920). With a nostalgic preface, noting “Fifteen years have passed since the publication of the..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish with some hints of its Capture
Price: $400
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, one of 950 copies, this copy unnumbered, "FOR REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY" Read More about Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
Price: $300
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 681 of 950 copies. EMERSON TUTTLE'S COPY. With the bookplate of Nantucket Artist Emerson Tuttle and the inscription "Emerson Tuttle Dec 42 from AFT" Read More about Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
Price: $250
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907. First edition. With a Bibliographical Autograph Letter, Signed. “A fishing story in Yankeeland” (Wetzel). Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) was a newspaperman and pioneer in newspaper syndication, whose novel Eben Holden (1900) sold more than a million copies. Signed in his fine hand on a...... Read More about Eben Holden’s Last Day A-Fishing
Price: $275
London: Printed by G. Parsonage [for] John Baddeley, 1834. First Edition. Inscribed by the AUthor, in Original Boards, Uncut. Inscribed on front flyleaf: “Presented to [name obliterated] with the Author’s best regards. Nov. 29, 1846.”. Read More about The London Angler’s Book, or Waltonian Chronicle, Containing Much Original Information to...
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London: Routledge, 1910. The “Oval” Series. Fourth edition, revised. Originally published in 1897. Read More about Lawn Tennis
Price: $100
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First Edition. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice). Read More about Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
Price: $60
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First edition. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice). Read More about Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
Price: $225